120 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xv. 



tera, and has quite a large number of hosts belonging mostly to the 

 last named order. It was first recorded from Alabama and Heliothis 

 and the genus Pterotius, and at present has been reared from the follow- 

 ing hosts. — Lepidoptera : Alaba7na argillacea Hubner, A 7/fogra/>/i a 

 brass! cce Riley, Carpocapsa pomonella Linn., Heliothis obsoleta Fab- 

 ricius, lafiassa ligmcolor\NdL\kcr, Lapliygma frugiperda Smith & Abbot, 

 MamestraJ>icta Harris, Phlegethoiitias sexta Johanssen, Platynota ros- 

 trana Walker, Polychrosis vifeana Clemens. — Hymenoptera : Pteronus 

 r/7;<?j/y Scopoli and doubtfully Pachynematus palliventris Cresson. 



Literature referred to. 

 1885. Riley, Charles Valentine. 4th Rep. U. S. Ent. Commission, Washington, 



p. 102. 

 1905. Quaintance, Altus Lacy and Charles Thomas Brues. Bull. No. 50, Bureau 



Ent., U. S. Dep. Agric, Washington, p. 116. 



Class I, HEXAPODA. 



Order IV, DIPTERA. 



A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF SABETHID 

 MOSQUITO. 



By Frederick Knab, 

 Washington, D, C. 



Dinomimetes, new genus. 



Eyes contiguous ; clypeus without bristles ; antennas very long, filiform, ciliate, 

 the whorls inconspicuous, the second segment over fourteen times as long as wide in 

 both sexes ; metanotum with setae. Prothoracic lobes well separated. 



Dinomimetes epitedeus, new species. 



Female : Antennae, the tori small, globular, ochreous, naked ; second segment 

 extremely long ; third segment about two-thirds as long, the following ones suc- 

 cessively shorter ; the segments are densely ciliate and bear many scattered longer 

 setae; the second segment brown scaled. Clypeus elongate, conical, naked. Labial 

 palpi moderately short. Occiput clothed with narrow pale brownish recumbent 

 scales and a few scattered erect forked ones ; along the posterior margin a dense con- 

 used row of erect forked scales. Prothoracic lobes prominent. Mesonotum brown, 

 the scale vestiture bronzy brown, having two Submedian bare stripes and with 

 numerous coarse setre, mostly in subdorsal and lateral rows, longest and most closely 

 placed on the posterior portion. Scutellum distiilctly trilobed, yellow-brown, with 

 three patches of brown scales and groups of long coarse setre on the lobes. Meta- 



